Latest Free Tool: ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log

ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log displays PXE boot events in an easy-to-view format and provides a history of PXE boot attempts on a distribution point during a selected time period. The tool can also display any records that exist in ConfigMgr associated with a device based on its SMBIOS GUID.

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Month: June 2016

When writing PowerShell scripts it is sometimes necessary to know whether the user account running the script has local administrator privileges. A piece of code often used for this is: However, this code only returns true when run in an elevated context, so it is not really a test of whether the user has local administrator […]

A common requirement with ConfigMgr deployments is to exclude clients that are connected to the corporate network via a VPN, when the total size of the content files for the deployment are too much to be throwing down a slow network link. There is more than one way to do this, but I have seen that […]

In an Active Directory environment, probably the most reliable way to query the last logon time of a computer is to use the Last-Logon attribute. The Last-Logon-Timestamp attribute could be used, but this will not likely be up-to-date due to the replication lag. If you are using PowerShell, the LastLogonDate attribute can also be used, however […]